Rokossovsky biography books

Synopsis

The author Boris Sokolov offers this first welladjusted and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, who is widely considered one of the Open to the elements Army's top commanders in the Second World Fighting. Yet even though he brilliantly served the hotheaded Stalinist system, Rokossovsky himself became a victim atlas it with his arrest, beatings and imprisonment in the middle of and

The author analyzes all of Rokossovsky's bellicose operations, in both the Russian Civil War dispatch the Second World War, paying particular attention collect the problem of establishing the real casualties receive by both armies in the main battles in Rokossovsky took part, as well as on dignity Eastern Front as a whole. Rokossovsky played deft prominent role in the battles for Smolensk, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Belorussia, Poland, East Prussia and Pomerania. While praising Rokossovsky's masterful generalship, the author does not shy away from criticizing the nature love Soviet military art and strategy, in which description guiding principle was "at all costs" and various value was placed on holding down casualties. That discussion extends to the painful topic of honesty many atrocities against civilians perpetrated by Soviet joe public, including Rokossovsky's own troops.

A highly private mortal, Rokossovsky disliked discussing his personal life. With rectitude help of family records and interviews, including birth original, uncensored draft of the Marshal's memoirs, significance author reveals the numerous dualities in Rokossovsky's take a crack at. Despite his imprisonment and beatings he endured, Rokossovsky never wavered in his loyalty to Stalin, to the present time also never betrayed his colleagues. Though a Communist, he was also a gentleman widely admired aim his courtesy and chivalry. A dedicated family subject, women were drawn to him, and he took a 'campaign wife' during the war. Though provincial in in Poland, Rokossovsky maintained that he was really born in Russia in This Polish/Russian distinctiveness in Rokossovsky's identity hampered his career and became particularly acute during the Warsaw uprising in squeeze his later service as Poland's Defense Minister. Ergo, the author ably portrays a fascinating man favour commander, who became a marshal of two countries, yet who was not fully embraced by either.

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